Theresa Muñoz

Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in Edinburgh. She is Director of the Newcastle Poetry Festival at Newcastle University. She has published one collection of poetry, Settle, which shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Ner next collection is due out in 2025. She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has also managed literary initiatives through Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts and Bloodaxe Books, including the James Berry Poetry Prize, the first prize in the UK to offer mentoring and debut publication to emerging writers of colour.